Recent books, The Heretic of Cacheu by Toby Green and Worlds of Unfreedom by Roquinaldo Ferreira, painstakingly recreate the ...

Other satellite technologies have also revolutionised daily life. Weather satellites have made forecasts more accurate, while ...

The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide by Howard W. French traces the line ...

Alleged occupants of Earth’s interior have since included mammoths, super-civilisations, and the aforementioned UFOs. Kept ...

O n 20 June 1940, with the threat of large-scale enemy bombing looming ever closer and the Battle of Britain imminent, a ...

Chernobyl Children: A Transnational History of Nuclear Disaster by Melanie Arndt discovers how civil society flourished – and then faltered – in the fallout.

A literate slave was a must-have in wealthy ancient Roman households. Keen to capitalise on this taste for learning, masters and slaves alike turned education into profit.

When the Japanese surrendered in 1945, the East Indies nationalists seized the opportunity to throw off the colonial yoke of the Dutch and proclaim the independent state of Indonesia which the ...

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Roman politics after the Emperor Diocletian abdicated in AD 305 was confusingly complicated as emperors and deputy emperors of the West and of the East contended for power. Among them was Flavius ...

In 1901, on the 300th anniversary of his death, the bodies of Tycho Brahe and his wife Kirstine were exhumed in Prague. They had been embalmed and were in remarkably good condition, but the astronomer ...

The town of Chartres, some 50 miles (80km) south-west of Paris, is dominated by one of France’s most beautiful cathedrals, famed among much else for its medieval stained glass. In the Middle Ages it ...